call me ishmael
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Would it be in bad taste to suggest that the show jumped the shark with Orca?
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4 hours ago, bosawks said:
I was there for the
right reasonsMoney.The end.
Fixed it.
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3 hours ago, TVMovieBuff said:
I feel the department team that should have their bottoms paddled are the ones who do the background checks on the contestants. (Figurative bottom-paddling, not literal. That would be violence, and I apologize if I sounded like I was advocating violence.)
How much of a big deal would all this have been if Rachael Kirkconnell had not lasted as long on the show as she did? What if she had been a 3rd or 4th week boot? I think the story would still have come out, but to lesser publicity.
I would be interested in seeing what guidelines they are given for the background checks. Someone in authority must decide WHAT would be disqualifying and what they should look for. It would help to know if they didn’t know or if the show decided “who cares”?
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Tayshia wants to be locked in another resort??
Flee, Tayshia!! Escape while you can!
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8 hours ago, JudyObscure said:
Katie is cute, but I look at her and see the "brunette second lead" on all the old sit-coms. Janet to Chrissy on "Three's Company," or Mary Ann to Ginger on "Gilligan's Island." So far, she's shown two sides to her personality, serious lecturer and bawdy comedian, and neither type was appealing to me. Oh well, she might change completely once she has 30 men fawning over her.
Of course the debate between Mary Ann and Ginger still goes on till this day. Which is more than we can say about the Bachelorettes!
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1 hour ago, seacliffsal said:
For some reason my DVR decided not to record this. After reading everyone's wonderful commentary (and snark) I see that I did not miss anything but, rather, was able to have a much more enjoyable experience with this episode than if I had watched it. Thanks everyone!
Where did you find such an intelligent DVR? I’d like to buy one.
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Maybe I am wrong but I really doubt that Rachel surprised him with that line of questioning. For several years now the franchise has been getting criticized for its (lack of) contestant vetting and continuing to bring on not only people with dubious social media histories but also ones prone to bullying and the production of conflict. In particular, it has been criticized in particular for people with social media histories of racist comments. When CH tried to insist that no one in 2018 would have thought the same way he was defending the show as much as he was protecting Racheal. As someone above pointed out, all he had to do was say "look she will comment on this. Please listen to her before you come to any judgment." Or "she will be commenting on this and we know that she has regrets." Or any number of other things. But he didn't do that and Rachel L didn't make him make the choices he did.
Personally, I think that the show(s) need to do a deep rethinking of the way that they are being put together and not only about the question of race. It used to be that I found parts painful because I felt bad for what the contestants stumbled into. Or when they so obviously misread cues. But now it is painful because the whole thing is set up like one of those apocalyptic car race movies of the 1980s where if you didn't win it meant you were left mangled on the road and all the contestants were trying to make sure that everyone else's car exploded. The only season that wasn't like that was Tayshia's and that's because they got rid of the really bad apples early. When your villain was Bennett you know they were only going through the motions.
Now I feel nostalgic for the days when everyone was appalled at how badly Juan Pablo behaved. The show has responded to almost all criticism by simply nibbling at the edges of the problem. I don't know if Harrison will ever be back. But whoever hosts the next season should be hosting a very different show.
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I have to say that watching this WTA (which I really hadn't planned to do) brought home to me how much this show has lost the thread. There was CH sitting there like an aristocrat in Pompeii unaware that there was a volcano nearby. Then you saw all the things that they didn't show because they wanted Victoria or some other conflict every moment....LITERALLY. But there were also the dates that were simply disgusting and cruel.
Basically the show now seems to be all about making sure that people are demeaned and turned against each other. Part of it is the hothouse nature and the young age of the contestants. But it seems to me that there just is a lot more cruelty and structured embarrassment and humiliation organized by TPTB. The lack of self-reflection that CH manifested in his interview is all in keeping with this.
If the host was sitting there with a large goblet of wine on a great throne it would fit right in.
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1 hour ago, Mu Shu said:
I love Pringle’s and slim Jim’s. Two is pretty generous.
I agree. If they actually provided Slim Jim’s more of the contestants would want to leave early instead of getting stuck with the lead for another week.
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14 hours ago, Lamb18 said:
Here's a little update about Baby the cat, who wouldn't watch The Bachelor. He likes to watch videos of birds and squirrels. He likes Star Wars movies because he tries to capture the aircraft and the light sabers. He even will watch a church service. But he won't watch The Bachelor. Hmmm... I'll ask my sister if she'll give it another try tomorrow night. The thing is Baby would have liked the farm animals, bowling and the boxing matches. Maybe it's when there's rose ceremonies at the beginning of the show . . .
Do you think he is upset with Chris Harrison?
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1 hour ago, Bluesky said:
Do you think there’s any coming back from that after hiding out like this?
Yeah. I could be wrong but he will go through an elaborate “soul searching process” and be redeemed.
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1 minute ago, Bluesky said:
I can’t believe they let him go. 20 years gone over a bad interview. Wow.
They didn’t let him go. They let him go on hiatus so that he might be able to dodge questions about pretending that 2018 was a few centuries ago. It’s to protect him I think.
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6 minutes ago, tennisgurl said:
Can "Alleged Chicago Hooker" be the name of my new hip Indie girl group?
Only if that isn’t the “job title “ of a contestant on the next Bachelor
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I think she might work. She is attractive and clearly has a sense of humor. Also, if you think about how the best thing about Tayshia’s season was when they had actually conversations the fact that she is capable,of having them is a plus. She also showed how to shut down Victoria without being rude. None of the others have shown that capacity.
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Looks to me like the hedge funds should have shorted Victoria’s stock rather than Game Stop.
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They are not showing all of the episodes or even the ones they show in any particular order (outside of story blocks) but if you have access to a television company called “Retro” they are showing old Doctor Who episodes fairly regularly. I’ve been watching “Unearthly Child.”
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3 hours ago, TheFinalRose said:
My daughter and her friend gave a Barb cameo to another friend. It's a joke thing.
Had their friend dome something wrong?
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3 hours ago, LuvMyShows said:
Hahaha!
I don't think it's that they weren't happy to see her...I think it's that they didn't know who she was!
I know that I, at least, wasn't happy to see her.
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I guess True Love is surely dead. 😩
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21 minutes ago, Bluesky said:
Having similar families doesn’t mean they are meant for each other. This whole “my family is everything “ has been going on every season. The women must think they get points for this.
I don’t remember any first date asking me what my “pops” is like. It’s so boring listening to their family stories. I end up fast forwarding one on one dates.Just once I wish one of them would say “My family suffocated me when I was growing up and I got away as quickly as I could.” All of this family stuff is so 1880s.
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1 hour ago, TomGirl said:
I pity the next girlfriend!
That would have been true even if Barb hadn’t liked her.
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5 minutes ago, Rhetorica said:
It was OK. Didn't live up to my anticipation. Did any one else feel we were in the age of a pandemic? The shots were mostly one person on one person. No large crowds. Everything looked like it was shot on a soundstage.
I'm glad it's back.
I think it was filmed in 2019.
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1 hour ago, nutty1 said:
Reality Steve said today that she let's Ivan go, and Ben and Zac are the final 2. She chooses Zac, they are engaged and still together. At least that is what he is hearing. I do not think he is sure of his sources this season.
"(SPOILER UPDATE): The finale is not released ahead of time to media, just so you know. My guess today was wrong. Tayshia sends Ivan home at the final 3 rose ceremony tonight, making Ben and Zac her final 2. Had a hard time believing she’d keep Ben over Ivan, only to eliminate him just days later, but that’s what she did. Ben and Zac both meet her family. She eliminates Ben after the family meeting. Zac is the only one who is there final rose ceremony day. She picks him, as originally reported, and I’m pretty sure they’re engaged and still together. Whew. Go to bed Tayshia’s season. You’re drunk."
Ironically, doesn’t this mean that RS’s original information was correct? He was originally saying Ben and Zac=Zac and that Brendan self-liberated only to pull when he found out she temporarily eliminated Ben at final 4. So long as she doesn’t end up choosing Bennett it should be okay.
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52 minutes ago, Irlandesa said:
I just think it's rare that a reason for a breakup helps people move on if they're not ready to move on already. If they're still in the relationship mindset, the whatifs won't stop. Even Blake was thinking "if only she met my family...." which is kind of silly. I don't think she's going to fall for him if she sees him with his family. But in his mind, she can't know that.
I think that that might have been true in the moment on the show. But at Men Yell All it was clear that Blake was asking if it was just a matter of time and she should have just said "no, I realized that there was no future." At that point it was really about letting him move on and however crazy it is waffling on that issue is giving false hope. I actually like Tayshia but she has been showing a real inability to think about what is going on with the other person over the last couple of episodes.
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S01.E01/S01.E02/S01.E03:
in The Nevers
The guy who hates them all because they may actually end up demanding rights said something to the effect of no man “of stature” was touched. Instead it was males of the working class, immigrants, Afro-Britons etc.
i know it is probably just me but the alien ship at the end reminded me of the Vorlon ships from Babylon 5. Given their manipulation I wouldn’t put it past ehm.
Holy Crossovers Batman!